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(excluding Penge) sanitary areas; there were 9,569
diphtheria patients admitted into the Metropolitan Asylums
Hospitals during 1899, and 1,679 remained under treatment
at the end of December last. Whooping-cough was proportionately
most fatal in Chelsea, St. Pancras, Limehouse,
Poplar, St. George Southwark, and Newington sanitary
areas; enteric fever in Holborn, Clerkenwell, City of
London, Bethnal Green, Limehouse, and Rotherhithe
sanitary areas ; and diarrhoea in Fulham, St. Luke, Shoreditch,
Poplar, St. Saviour Southwark, and St. George
Southwark sanitary areas.
During the year under notice 8,275 deaths from phthisis were
registered in London, equal to an annual rate of 1.82 per
1,000; the proportional fatality from this disease was considerably
higher in Central and in East London than in
any other part of the Metropolis. In North London the
phthisis death-rate was 1.64 per 1,000, in West London it
was 1.65, in South London 1.74; while in East London it
was 2.19, and in Central London 2.75 per 1,000. Among
the various sanitary areas the lowest phthisis death-rates
were 0.84 in Hampstead, 0.88 in Stoke Newington, 1.00 in
Lee, 1.15 in Paddington and in Lewisham (excluding
Penge), 1.21 in Wandsworth, and 1.34 in Kensington; the
highest rates were 2.70 in Strand, 3.08 in Holborn, 3.13 in
St. Giles,. 3.31 in Westminster, 3.44 in St. Saviour Southwark,
and 3.53 in St. Luke and in St. George Southwark.
Infant mortality in London last year, measured by the proportion
of deaths under one year of age to registered births,
was equal to 1.66 per 1,000, and exceeded by 9 per 1,000
the mean rate in the ten preceding years. The lowest rates
of infant mortality were 103 in Stoke Newington, 112 in
St. Giles, 124 in Marylebone and in Plumstead, and
129 in St. George Hanover Square and in Hampstead;
while they ranged upwards in the other sanitary areas to
203 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields and in St. Saviour Southwark,
204 in Shoreditch, 205 in St. George Southwark, 207
in Westminster, 216 in Limehouse, and 226 in Holborn.